Bhuvanya Vijay of St. Joseph’s Academy, Dehradun, stood first in class XII with a score of 99 per cent while Anika Aggarwal, Simran Khanuja of St.Mary’s School, Pune, and Manasi Arora of Chatrabhuj Narsee Memorial School, Mumbai were declared the joint Class X toppers scoring 98.4 per cent.

Girls have once again outperformed boys in this year’s ICSE Class – X and ISC Class – XII examinations the results for which were declared on Friday.

In all, 98.78 per cent of girls and 97.73 per cent of boys passed the Indian Certificate for Secondary Education ( ICSE ) exam, while 96.66 per cent of girls and 93.91 per cent of boys passed the Indian School Certificate ( ISC ) examination.

This year, 1,40,878 students appeared in the Class 10th exam, while 64,043 candidates appeared in the Class 12th exam.

Giving region – wise analysis break – up of the pass percentage, Arathoon said said the southern region posted the best percentage in the country in both class X and class XII results.

While the pass percentage of the southern region for class X stood at 99.66 per cent, it was 98.28 per cent for class XII.